University of Copenhagen researchers have been following vegetation trends across the planet's driest areas using satellite imagery from recent decades. They have identified a troubling trend: Too little vegetation is sprouting ...
Environment
Nov 27, 2020
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High-yielding dwarf plant varieties lose their advantage due to increasing carbon dioxide concentration.
Biotechnology
Nov 30, 2012
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Deaths due to famine have fallen precipitously in recent decades, but undernutrition, which affects one in five children worldwide, remains rampant. Now, researchers are using satellite imagery and social media to detect ...
Environment
Dec 24, 2019
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"That's it, time to go!" As a rising swell of muddy water creeps towards his house in Niger's capital Niamey, Mamoudou Barkire is finally leaving.
Environment
Sep 4, 2019
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Teams of researchers in the American Southwest and North Atlantic Islands have found that historic and prehistoric peoples in these regions who had created vulnerabilities to food shortfall were especially susceptible to ...
Environment
Dec 28, 2015
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(AP) -- Eastern Europe's tradition of political revolt has met the digital age. This time it's not communists or food shortages fueling fury, but an international copyright treaty that opponents say threatens freedom on ...
Internet
Feb 18, 2012
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With lockdowns ordered to contain the COVID-19 pandemic—that has reached 183 countries, infected over 1.7 million people and caused over 100,000 deaths—there are fears of food shortages caused by panic buying and supply ...
Environment
Apr 13, 2020
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Following a record-breaking drought over the summer, China is on the brink of a water catastrophe that could have devastating consequences for global food security, energy markets and supply chains, according to a report ...
Environment
Nov 17, 2022
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(Phys.org)—A report issued by the Global Food Security program, offers dire warnings of disruptions to food supplies in the future due to changes in the environment wrought by global warning. Titled "Extreme weather and ...
The emptying of supermarket shelves during the COVID pandemic demonstrated the chaos that disruption to the UK's food supply can provoke. Could this type of disruption have a different cause in the future? And what might ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2023
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